This will be my last post for now. We are in Singapore and heading back to Germany tonight – via Sri Lanka and Dubai. :)
Here are a few impressions of Ubud and its surroundings. We went to see some rice terraces, coffee plants, the only water temple (according to our guide) and the elephant caves – which got nothing to do with elephants. Notice that rabies dog… As much as we usually love dogs – we didn’t get close […]
Nyepi – or “Balinese New Year” aka “Day of Silence”. So what did we do today? Nothing really. Got up, had breakfast, walked around the hotel premises, took some pictures, wrote my blog (you wouldn’t have noticed, would you?), had lunch, surfed the internet. Last night therefore, we went to Ubud Central and watched the […]
… if you can speak of “dry” during the wet season… Actually it wasn’t too bad. We did have massive, soaking rain falls, flooding and all that – but it’s always just for an hour or two – the rest of the day was mostly fine (still cloudy though). We were a bit surprised to […]
Unfortunately I couldn’t use my 7D for too many pictures underwater because the flash mount broke (NOT underwater)… So the first pictures are 7D with flash, then some 7D without and then it’s back to my 10yr-old Olympus 4040z.
Boarding the JetStar flight JQ81 from Darwin to Denpasar made us feel like boarding a tourist charter plane from Germany to Mallorca – or UK to Cyprus. Many of the passengers were noisy, drunk and not familiar with most of the inflight protocol/behavior. Good that we wouldn’t stay on Kuta, but were heading on to […]
